New PDF release: Cosmopolitanism, Nationalism, and Modern Paganism (Palgrave

This quantity explores how Pagans negotiate neighborhood and international tensions as they craft their identities, either as individuals of neighborhood groups and as cosmopolitan “citizens of the world.” in accordance with leading edge overseas  case stories from Pagan groups within the usa, Poland, Russia, Ukraine, Israel, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, and Malta, it considers how smooth Pagans negotiate tensions among the actual and common, nationalism and cosmopolitanism, ethnicity, and global citizenship. The burgeoning of recent Paganisms in fresh a long time has proceeded along transforming into globalization and human mobility, ubiquitous net use, a mounting environmental main issue, the re-valuing of indigenous religions, and new political configurations. Cosmopolitanism and nationalism have either stimulated the weaving of targeted neighborhood Paganisms in various contexts. Pagans articulate a robust attachment to neighborhood or indigenous traditions and landscapes, developing paths that replicate neighborhood socio-cultural, political, and historic realities. even if, they draw on the net and the worldwide move of individuals and common principles. This assortment considers how they confound those binaries in interesting, complicated methods as participants of neighborhood groups and worldwide networks.